Workers Press no. 660

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 12, 1972 • NUMBER 660

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Compromise harder, moans Gormley Back the miners! Defeat Tories!

Backing for

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE MINERS' SECTION STATEMENT

the right-wing majority on the executive, will decide THE All Trades Unions Alliance calls ery single upon worker in Britain on case wilhave the power that is in sene bal support for in in solidarity with the miners to fis strike. othe miners are in a fight to a finish with quests is the policy to unite the whole working miners grows the ry ding of coed industry, workers' control the Nationa coa coardl than the mine moan that even more is involved Behind the sand here Your ment Like coal barons in movement is already sphere the nationy.

ins ust bitat nationalized -the acrile, after provide a divine stru generatons lovers are always telling us that workers without use Nice bosses are atackne cannot even s defeating the elected mg the SOLIDARITY with the striking miners spread What throughout the country yesterday as organized we pickets began their first day of action.

carry think TUC running away We've let you down In London after a two- Titical ight, so rs hour meeting with Victor The 'Star' for solidarity miners'-

TUC,

the Toriall rank-and-file reatner drivers, to put an en vorkers will act in solidarity despite covers Joe the miners president heir leader of NCB bureaucrats from London to the pit bott vormey admittea inat une uP Strike coming detach their Fellow trail as and elected attitude engineers or as men was control of the

RETREAT

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nardening To get workers' January 11, 1972 in every coalned. strike timm ability tnat damned sight workers press Birthday cheer now on, sovermenger ind-she-clockan eaentea

EXCLUSIVE

for Nixon Thate miners add enhaged in with te-and-death engaged ...from Tito! fear militant ra miners. Members will Summed up this retormist coal or 46 YUGOSLAV President Tito is reported to have sent 'cordial birthday greetings' Nixon, while at home. his party is striving to talks yesterday combat 'counter-revolution'.

The Leaders or une croadans Communist Partv. sacked on E1,250 Fund was here Tito's orders ast month. " Linter 'useleake may now face trial in the largest according to grows to £291.36 reports from Zagreb. The Croat пер + she university factory TOMORROW in Wor- terepromising who kers Press we publish exclusive interview o a locat level

STEE

with the general sec- answer for their activity.

were on a nationa retary of the National The Croat judiciary is als Union of Mineworkers, Kraft strikers lobbying engineers' president Hugh Scanlon at Peckham yesterday.

Lawrence Daly. took ational Mikenother 10 fight because He gives his views to to any. the leadership emething likect Which have •led to redur staff reporter Stephen NOTTINGHAMSHIRE min tions immediately or dona power stations in the area.

national teamitte Tohns on the strategy Those wind of ptake bare favour He sas a day action the miners must adopt Steaker plants can*t fight moving to win their battle with victim- ment, said: T knew thered be or the (on or com of coal a day. ization the Tory government. the ervened at the toa yesterday Union leaders bend s to stop all coa decision abandon Baint and a

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

of barge in in favour of strike Right-to work of the coal al campaign begins A LOBBY of workers from catio strike have hecialine.

had true the orker moo Polace tuared up but left the Kraft cheese and mar hearived at garine Merseyside, remed mildly optimisticas imited dick " their wester daim, ycotciuds We will be marching from

GLASGOW FEBRUARY 5

LIVERPOOL FEBRUARY 19

Ironica membels and shaken the Tories

SWANSEA FEBRUARY 19

London headquarters. I to come our ever. union execuuve Peror i he ended s from well é Liverpool rally at disappointed We were to EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY on MARCH 12

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have shown our ea nine Boses, and ter own considers have 150 engineers walked out.

Accommodation. ... C Polish coal still being imported-miners' union Cooking equipment Tinned food ...

BY JOHN SPENCER

POLAND'S

Stalinist has no fairy sizzle quated in rinance stop the ex- part of coal to Britain st this, the Nationa Polish °1 Brass/lazz bands the Polish during the 1000 tons a Roused Please tick box where applicable.

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What we think The Star' covers UP

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add invita the government. Thate mines adede thig wher Someone no is en scene in the of the govern militant ranks. Union presiden this cin chen her ders a fresh carry al laim, at Santon hope that Compromising tactori If the Coventry That the as they werenon a nationa ane. 1 February-Marc edits stakin intervened sted ballot and a no-strike pl that leads the fight against the INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY JANUARY 12, 1972 • NUMBER 660 Y ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE MINERS SECTION STATEMENT

THE All Trades Unions Alliance calls Britain single worker

UDOR

to fis In solidarity with the miners *Which cass will have quests is the policy to unite the whole working nOW SUIKe The miners are in a fight to a finish with return a Labour government pledged to socialist the National Coal Board. The ware mans that even more is involved In every nationalized industry, workers' control anin the privately cored sector spread ng, naconal- Like coal barons to chosures and 25° cannot provide a living aly. But elow they are screams May wave charman Beret firs and the ethe win the in is verment just as the old coal bar have elected workers' sat be cepite hou business. SOLIDARITY with the striking miners spread one as the tone will cor then the miners carry throughout the country yesterday as organized sure man demand and any ul i banderment Bade pickets began their first day of action.

oh thiengineers leaders Tue leaders are in an o sai and say sel Workers Press as In London after a two- wardsat is essential now is workers' Unions control of and to read hour meeting with Victor the pits and the ending of compensation payments Feather

TUC,

Unite all tne ruled every dy by he si patty tyrhere 'act in solidarity president oe their Gormley admitted that the decreach ther tello rail attitude men was disease on sped hend produced res nardening. January 11, 1972 committees in everv coalfield. and not jabi is that the sight workers press he added. clock an

EXCLUSIVE

executive r Firemen YUGOSLAV President Tito is reported to have greetings' sent "cordial birthday Richard After the Feather-Gromley while at home his party is striving to Nixon, Perine any Tea dersh combat 'counter-revolution'.

nst the Leaders of the Croatian agalnst Communist Party, sacked on £1,250 Fund 1llo s oracis last may now near ruture. accorain: grows to £291.36 reports irom Lacred " Be rosed TOMORROW in Wor- lines o opposition kers Press we publish со пАно то and break the striker to emigre exclusive interview an with the general sec- before Somal. they wanted e retary of the National a and there under Croat ludiciary is also at cal b Union of Mineworkers, Kraft strikers lobbying engineers' president Hugh Scanlon at Peckham yesterday.

Lawrence Daly. shire, PHILIP WADER

BCORRENPONDEN

descriste arde Ter took tongs to members Backa special" tort

AN INDUSTRIA

He gives his views to neve Mak e leadership s Move as staff reporter Stephen ilke everal party MERSEYSIDE engin- Johns on the strategy eers in London to lobby the miners must adopt intended member officials have their union leadership plants can't fight on strike in ee had io support a to win their battle with over the Kraft victim- ment, said: Tense 1) there'd be bureaucracy taking advantag ization strike, hit out the Tory government. economic yesterday against the -Union leaders bend Our aimis to stop all co decision abandon the national pay claim.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

political problems too Workers in favour of strike "He A LOBBY of workers from seck strike nine- on ate twared up but left Kratt cheese and mar. soon Merseterday garine factory, Mersevside. met with limited uarters when they s to start a day-long lobby.

ss their owest rer claim. we will be marching irom 4 in.

GLASGOW FEBRUARY 5

deputation

LIVERPOOL FEBRUARY 19

FEBRUARY 1S

WEMBLEY On MARCH 12 cy on a shing then

EMPIRE POOL,

they isappointed. ormen we mean business

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decided 0 man lea intervien - make it wen colle at nearby Has shot durn ernier her a before with sat Tealing the smoulder. meeting began (see above).

working class. ca decion torban all Visit Poland later this Polish coal still being imported-miners' union Cooking equipment as a Teard Grea for its actions Tinned tood a piceet Ay. And we want a

BY JOHN SPENCER

POLAND'S

Stalinist cline the Port call bare ductive has but could not airly sizeade guRottiedam in Finance government airly sizeable is Cardift In Wales, IAN plans to stop The NUM hi gainst thine work s S reports: port of coal to Britain Brass/jazz bands 'olish mineworker refused during coming asai. But the NUM S The miners large corday: Please tick box where applicable.

strike. is more tatiar 5,30 Polish Commit

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Workers Press, Wednesday Jan: 2, i2, 1972

PAGE TWO

IRELAND: BACKGROUND

Reformist leadership JACK GALE continues the history of Irish working.

class struggle. A FEW YEARS after the arid published in 17% vy one lon Poyning's repeal to tall back takes a hold then the people catul o (1782) the Society of United Irishmen was formed in 1791.

the Driven uncereround Dy this British government, The prople society negotiatea on equal merge in the misi terms with the Revolutionary Directorv of France. In fact July, the French dispatched several no Lest libation ion to European Revolution replaced by reaction expeditions to assist the Irish but none was successful- "The. though and, One lanaed working class and the together with the United class was also shared more a much risomen. aereated importance British force superior castiebar. United treesimen ledich rovide them with free Tood and odging. the he in Century and the e proper Connell Revolutionist, Theobald Wolfe Tone, was the founder of the 'United Irishman'. founder Cremationare bich internal and it of 1832 in Englar reply this time, the British ruling Subscribe! workers press E1.se 100 6 17 mont 15912 laeues 24.28 for 3 monthe (76 lasues) If you want to take Workors Pross twice a wook the rates are: Es 28 for 1 moh 26 pee Fill in the form below HOW and aand 1o: High St., rouletton Dosh, Workers on on. Sills Clapham I would like to take out a subecription to Workers Press.

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12.25 Or how I learned to drop my racial preju the police. of IT IS a fair guess that most acquisition of a great deal 'The capital in a very short time is will that people say something be Organization' is a pretty good, admired. Just as honest business- thriller. As the film- Laul men should be admired for grow- trade papers say, the business ing rich on the labour of others.

prediction is good in all areas.

The particular robbery here The exciting and involves enormous mechani- all well acted, it is about crime, and with extending cal Clalle all of violence. It has ladder which reaches the up to already taken well over an office block. sevent noor or in the United States. but the twist is that it turns out $2.5m It and will profit, make that the gang who did the rob- a nice that is why it was made. bery are really goodies. They just It does not hold itself out as smash The Organiza- want to message, it's there having any tion, which seems to have for murders drug smuggling and fun. the message is there all right and beatings peddling in San Francisco. it is consistently repeated.

The gang that the honest should love him, and you guy, that The are an everyday niemey and everything is for the the cop best (if and people, gang, cosmopolitan in believe in law and order) in origin. There happy family a minister of religion (I hear they mull racial called the United States.

are all at it now), a law student, girl The film is about a policeman, champion athlete and a robbery. He is a character Chinese The origin, and so on. appearing for the third time kind of crowd you are likely to recent films, Lieutenant Tibbs, Dixon, ot any hberal American meet kind of San Francisco thriller nowadays. Tibbs' help, Dock Green. But, since things are They need but States are suspicious that the police do spectacular in Thore than here, he involved not want to catch the men at the gets in the $4m top. This breath of corruption is morder ahe theft of heroin, too much for Tibbs, worth while Dixon wno Is of honour, and he punches does more mundane things, like man chiding with the man who suggests it. I guess cyclIsts defective rear lights. Tibbs had missed the televised hearings of the commission into the New York police. Things are Moral sorted out. Reason and good fellowship prevail. The gang and Tibbs work together. Mind the moral is the you, both cases. Love your They have a formidable oppon- same local policeman, The Organization, even if he is a culin

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negro, like Tibbs. Not that the which runs a of ever, group film makes sadistic killers ever-present any point as around town about him being a negro. It just as parking

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LETTER

Another ial prejudice and love view of is badly injured. Only the police can help them. That is what the You film keeps telling us. can- police, without the and they, like God, are on your side. A view, il nas to be said, which the role of the police of the repressive one agencies of the State. Business Dear Editor, WITH A film as slight and Still, we pricked up our ears 'Gumshoe' at the mention of corruption in as enjoyable as the force. Even' poor Tibbs gels one expects Workers Press a bit concerned when one of the officers in the Narcotics Squad to ignore it or else commend For suicide.

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it briefly. (bu tonly a minute), it looked as be the might getting If lan Yeats thinks that it is False alarm! It turns 'not just a comedy' but a pusher couldecous. out that the officer had incurable fantasy, for the •blales leukaemia. should to discuss the go on The Organization itself of the comedy and the source shown working under the content of the fantasy. big business cover very That the film is a comedy was big office blocks, but the very all. 'Tribune', obvious to makers of the film make it very cul- raise the ever to by implication that they Clear allowed of its tural tone pages intend no offence to big business.

critie chastise this film its to They certainly do not go into for failing to reconstitute the of robbery discussion 'Weltanschauung' of the 1940s ally product of the competitive, pro- thrillers, related in some un- hit-seeking inequitable society 'early American specific way to either. Nor created by capitalism, Freud' and con- on scillilials do they consider big business as cerned not with the real critics being of the product same of time and space but the 'dark, thing. sad city of the imagination'. film The is gratuitously vio- lent. The violence is part of the Wow! Not the evier even

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and will probably of 'New Left entertainment, prigs garbage help to sell the film. Mind throw out idealist of well created as it is with Techni- this quality. color blood, it can't compare It is true that they don't— with what the forces of 'law and films like couldn't-make and doing order' are in Ireland, ог the 'Maltese Falcon' any more. what the 'allies" are doing in small- Britain is irredeemably Vietnam. They are really big pro- time in crime as in every other ductions but how can you area of Free Enterprise. compete with budgets like that?

Downtown America not

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Liverpool. Finney is not Bogart. of Realizing this, the makers 'Gumshoe' made all these have contradictions a of source No thriller. "more was ever just a thriller', but the few than good good fiction, ones are also thrillers and the sombre 1950 1930 and duced between especially by Chandler and Ham- do mett, powerfully evoke world of shadows and betrayals which, however, was not pro- duct of 'the imagination' but of the sordid and political realities of real history. No good writer invents world of his if he has

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tell enough imagination to something about the important the of real material world rest to live with. (Grahame us have his steries are set not in reen- 'Green- SOme are Sellor land' but in London, Mexico and Vietnam. That needed to be said.) The Chandler novels to which Finney the Albert character 1S addicted combined unsentimental observation with romantic daydream that a pitiless, cynical and profiteering society could thwarted by occasionally be pitiless, cynical and quixotic 'Private Eye', as if to show that though of have the thing else, everything do and monopoly louganess realism. This attitude becomes danger- ous when a Ralph Nader tries substitute it for politics. When individuals substitute for life, by watching the *Big Sleep', it is about as dangerous as a glass of beer. Ian Yeats was right to in- spect this film for signs of bourgeois but only conspiracy, Negotiations have been going describution is mart tiss has on since 1967 for a revision of distribution is part such US has been the treaty and the conspiracy. using every form of pressure to get favourable terms. In the book of the film, the hero of 'Gumshoe' expresses Amares withere stil obe lett-wing . opinions, rather too stalemate, with and for the often too explicitly ing effective. military control and there is barely a bint of them.

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Dashing off to Eton IT HAD to happen. Jack Dash- the man they couldn't gag—is off tub thumping again. The venue this time? Why, Eton, of course.

Eton is the spawning ground of more upper class Tory twits than any other institution in the country. What is Dash, a Communist Party member, doing there?

He told the 'Daily Express".

(Yes, he talks to the Beaver- brook press!): 'Although my own education was different from Eton, I am not nervous about speaking there. 'In my time I'm sure I have much tougher handled audi- ences. The invitation o Dash was extended by the Keynes Society. Which is appropriate enough; after all, the British Communist Party has never taken any real objection the doctrines of to Lord Milton Keynes. The jester who sent the invitation was little Robbie Lyle who is the nephew of mil lionaire Labourite, Woodrow Wyatt. Embarrassing echoes SELSDON (Working) Man ran into a spot of bother last week.

The venue chosen by the engineers'-union executive for a private meeting descripe dinthe Subey tils. 500 It also turned out to be just two minutes from the nearest Woolworth's, and within bussing distance New Addington, which is one of the largest working-class housing estates in the country and has an. un- employment rate twice the national average. Union chiefs who on arrival still imagined they could escape the echoes of the class struggle by removing themselves to the Selsdon Park Hotel were in for some further shocks. The staff of this historic pile (part of the present building dates back to the 15th century) -apparently used to more refined company - insisted in referring to them as 'Who? Oh, Hugh Scanlon's crowd!' What's more, there were all those embarrassing reminders of the famous Tory council of war there in January 1970. Some of those attending said the place was chosen so Hugh Scanlon could practise his golf. Mr Cadbury's dream house PETER CADBURY, controversial head of Westward Television, is something of a big-spender.

He already has some pretty conspicuous acquisitions: ocean.

going yachts, thoroughbred race.

norses, private helicopters and a air of his-and-hers Rolls Rovces Now he has bought a 1,500- ryside where he erks te build where he plans to build a 'dream house'. 'What I plan is a modest Georgian house with four bed- rooms,' he said. 'Nothing lavish' (1) Where will Jenkins be? ROY JENKINS continues his manoeuvres around the Com- mon Market issue. It was Jenkins and his right- wing followers who enabled the Tories to win their majority on the EEÇ vote in the House of Commons last October 28. The next crucial vote comes on January 20. surprise-Jen- kins won't be at Westminster:

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Workers Press. wednesday january 14, 1912

YORKSHIRE

MAUREEN CARR

letters have to be signed. Miners are YORKSHIRt miners' wives are deter- mined not to let the Tories and their has married been rightly asking exactly who wrote the underground gutter press divide them from their letter; they seem to recall a similar one WUl" husbands' strike. Wheldale col- during last year's strike.

'There are inspired rumours ofla so- Ker al liery for 13 nearly She called sex strike in Wakefield, but an her In Castleford - in many years. ways the diu all husband Geoff, a mem- investigation revealed they centre militancy Yorkshire- that PHILIP WADE spoke to two miners' ber of the pit's strike consist of is an anonymous letter in have five the Tory-owned 'Yorkshire Post'.

wives whose husbands are deeply in- committee, girls Usual newspaper practice is that all vaureen and Geon carr wit.

three chloren. volved in the sulke. and two boys. They must me saying he It's no use shouldn't go pit. the supor him. In any case, we win out'

MINERS STRIKE

• five

—DAY FOUR

MARRIED for 12 years, not Pat Lavery now has two 30p She felt young. children. for butter. very about the strong'y miners rolls. It's now or never' Her husband

CHARLIE

THOMPSON

way we livee claim-it's the strike should den started years ago, (55) works at S Kirkby colliery and has been in shouldn't living 1930. tasted only re day. maustry since He of the living of the war, at the caron wors housing committee on the Wher Hems- colliery. Lavour - controlled e a miners I was a pit-por world UrDal theovide down to have a holidy Council, Yorkshire. weeven lighting. We would of contapuli to out of coal

RENT UP

by mis Even then I do things Those lights were always • Shite lastea from o al going out tours for less sen nan-bab should • my first week,? e across a field and found the grease in there sen aiting There There Bone and more: first wase

CRUCIFY

strike entirely *There used to be a channel He minis irike w and ph There should be a General

MEANS TEST

at withs on a higher Thatseen, • much to Viabeh at in those days. 'Te doesn't bother me shat hings like going to the WaMineas must not be soft- a do it insanite at clothes a long as they shal older, bai emy father was an Ine. Lamps, but see for Bot them after a day: with 1 starteds right on top in the piland leadership the men know under cunt man against mien.,

BY ALEX MITCHELL

after stoppages. And remem THE TORY iobs 'shake-out'. or how almost 500.000 The butty s jobs were axed in the year ending October 1971.

man rayim ouhe THE BIG jobs 'shake- should do hoe do on out' in industry

FALL

out of bed at

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JOBS CUT

INDUSTRY

Heath moted by the the should elator the ist and we has axed yielding ien Vationalization smashed al But will they do almost half a million it i don't kno nat. (narle say: jobs in the past year. stand if But he points out that th hardest-hit Tories now The worst-hit sectors are chance of losing. 6,000 is industries engineering, where 96,000 it. We've got to mistake abou (8 per cent) Clothing This is it for the miners their hat's involved here is more it's now or never. have reached 52,000). Covers up Public utilities & mining 'shake-out' orm pentral part reating

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SOUTH VIETNAM has witnarawn is troods Irom wnen the Paton bureaucratele Join t anu - communist operation with Cambodian En- forces in E Cambodia. Triumph men back strike Saigon's A shop steward 1a atrocin announced objectives The cy claimed the company claim gen tea ti electic Labour apparently transter of work. against usee this retreats Saigon

BY AM INTERTRI

close rades Uniest Alliance. ween Phoon -as a further develop nent in ine radonalization group' WORKERS at the Alfred a che Herbert op

LATE NEWS

WEATHER

Sir nervert macnine-tool SuD- Richard's, ; 11,000-strong w sidiary Manchester

NEWS DESK

are considering a plan to machine used by tied milk Altrinchan 01-720 2000 occupation 'Recognize' stage an

CIRCULATION

management goes anead of England will have and sere are later es 01-622 7029 union' 1y instates transe the come to Coventry in the Midlands -CIR report

LESS JOBS

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN'S tearful but triumphant return to Dacca after 9} months' imprisonment is over, but the awful legacy of British and Pakistani rule remains.

The Sheikh, representing the stunted capitalist class The Sheikh's words can of E Bengal and balancing only mean that he recognizes between solidarity the insurgent the need for with Bhutto against the developing Bengali masses and im- mass movement in W Pakistan perialism, is well aware of as well as in Bangla Desh.

On the question of this. Indian the troops Awami League leader remained He used rhetorical every equivocal: device to conceal the bank- of the League 'They will be withdrawn the ruptcy Awami from the cheering millions day we want it. I had i dis- cussions with andra and. Prime who welcomed him the at Dacca racecourse. Minister Mrs Indira I know her. I have high regard To the workers and peasants for her.' he said: 'Socialism, democracy Conscious of the explosive and secularism will be the the rural situation in areas, national policy of Bangla of Khan's Desh' where the defeat But since there is no pro- army has roused the peasantry vision in the Awami League to take up arms against the for system of usury and landlord- programme the Sheikh alization of land and ism, the values the annul- Indian of presence as the most ment rural debt the powerful guarantee of peasants will believe this piece the decrepit capitalist system.

of demagogy when the see it.

At the same time the Sheikh will, no doubt, try to

GIVEN HELP

use the mass movement as a counterweight to prevent the To the imperialists he said Indian army from annexing that Bangla Desh should be the territory recognized, 'human- given 1972 could well prove to be itarian help' and a seat in the an even more decisive United Nations. for the Bengali people than But the imperialists are 1971. of waiting what kind see and home foreign policy Sheikh will adopt before they Leeds police give him their recognition.

Diplomatic recognition will obviously inquiry starts be used as a con- dition for pressurizing Bangla Desh not to expropriate foreign capital. TWO POLICE chiefs yester- Knowing the Sheikh's anti- day began a special inspection there • into Leeds communist proclivities the City police seems little basis for the im- force. perialists to suffer any qualms Sir John McKay, the Chief on this account. Inspector of Constabulary, To the Pakistanis he warned and Mr James Starritt, Assis- that his would have Commissioner of country tant the no links with W Pakistan and Metropolitan Police, travelled that those guilty of genocide Leeds to to prepare for the would be tried which will last under inter- investigation national supervision'. about a month. He accused Yahya Khan of In the few years 12 past massacring 3 million Bengalis Leeds officers have been con- and of denuding the national victed of various offences and exchequer but for concluded: pressure inquiry into *Even then I do not harbour the city's force has built up any hatred against you? steadily. workers press

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